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Some dashed forward over the open field in front; others skulked along by dykes and ditches; some, again, dodged here and there, as cover offered its shelter; but about a dozen, of whom I was one, kept the track of little cart-road, which, half-concealed by high banks and furze, ran in a zig-zag line toward the village.
It was singular enough, and I should not like to acknowledge it, were not these Confessions in their very nature intended to disclose the very penetralia of my heart; but singular it certainly was and so I have always felt it since, when reflecting on it that although much and warmly attached to Lady Jane Callonby, and feeling most acutely what I must call her abandonment of me, yet, the most constantly recurring idea of my mind on the subject was, what will the mess say what will they think at head-quarters? the raillery, the jesting, the half-concealed allusion, the tone of assumed compassion, which all awaited me, as each of my comrades took up his line of behaving towards me, was, after all, the most difficult thing to be borne, and I absolutely dreaded to join my regiment, more thoroughly than did ever schoolboy to return to his labour on the expiration of his holidays.
Artois poured out another cup of tea and drank it, considering the little funny situation. Vere and he with a secret from Hermione shared between them! Vere submitting verses to his judgment! He remembered Hermione's half-concealed tragedy, which, of course, had been patent to him in its uttermost nakedness. Even Vere had guessed something of it. Do we ever really hide anything from every one?
These cries have a vague resemblance to the syllables Tocano, Tocano, and hence, the Indian name of this genus of birds. At these times it is difficult to get a shot at Toucans, for their senses are so sharpened that they descry the hunter before he gets near the tree on which they are perched, although he may be half-concealed among the underwood, 150 feet below them.
The women showed their sentiments in the dressing of their hair. Very curious very curious. And here, in the hair, half-concealed, is an imitation dove's nest." "The deuce there is!" ejaculated Turner, pulling at his cigar. "A fashion which ruled for a still briefer period." "I should hope so. Well, roll the thing up, and I will do my best for you.
The woman was a stout figure, seemingly between thirty and forty; she wore no cap, and her long hair fell on either side of her head, like horse-tails, half-way down her waist; her skin was dark and swarthy, like that of a toad, and the expression of her countenance was particularly evil; her arms were bare, and her bosom was but half-concealed by a slight bodice, below which she wore a coarse petticoat, her only other article of dress.
Mark Ruthine had gently pushed Seymour Michael into the room and was closing the door behind them. Mrs. Agar did not see the General, who was half-concealed by his junior officer. She could not take her eyes from Jem's face. "This is fortunate," he said; and the sound of his voice was music in Dora's ears. "This is fortunate, every one seems to be here."
She went up to the blue curtains, and standing half-concealed, saw the concierge brooding in the sunlight of her window-sill. "Is nobody there?" said a light voice in the hidden street below, and at that she peered cautiously over the edge of the stonework, and saw a pale young man in grey before the door. She watched him. She watched him gravely, for he had come too late.
You would humble me from a saint to a very common sinner. It must be done, sir, returned the lady, with a half-concealed smile, though it degrades you from an angel to a man. But you forget the farm? He can lease it, as others do. Besides, would you have a clergyman toil in the fields? Where can he go? You forget Louisa.
Great as was his anxiety, Hugo could but laugh to see how the serving-man was placed before himself, and all on account of an unfortunate blemish on his countenance. And his enjoyment was heightened by the embarrassment and half-concealed irritation it occasioned Humphrey. But old Bartlemy paid no attention to Hugo and his merry mood.
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